Showing posts with label Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure!
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Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs,
Giles Andreae,
Missing Treasure,
Puffin Books,
Russel Ayto
Produce a kid's book with pirates in it and you're on to a sure fire winner. Produce a kid's book that has pirate DINOSAURS in it and it can't fail, surely?
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs is the sequel to the original Captain Flinn book. In it, a busy and inquisitive boy named Flinn finds a secret cupboard at the back of a museum after a raid on the collection's famed pirate horde of gold coins.
On the way Flinn meets Grumbleguts, and leads his friends on a daring mission to recover the stolen booty, and defeat the awesome Gigantosaurus.
It's a fizzing, busy book full of neat little panels and drawings. The story's pretty standard fare but still worth a look. After all, it's not every day you get to combine two awesome forces like dinos and pirates, is it?
Charlotte's best bit: Grumbleguts the Pirate being covered in Ketchup
Daddy's favourite bit: The superb comic-style panel cutaway of the pirate ship at the end.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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